I am a school food service manager. I do purchasing for 2100 lunches a day. We hear all the time that we should be serving fresh fruit and vegetables. Some of which are at an all time high right now. Grapes were 19.25/case when school started. Last week the price was 47.65. Needless to say, we are not serving those.

I'd say something political, as a joke mind you, but I don't wanna get spanked by Admin! :)

Oregon is one of the most expensive places I've ever lived! Our income taxes for Oregon were higher than Federal this year, and yet they keep cutting things...I know that groceries cost the two of us about $350 or more a month...we don't spend much on gas since we live where we work....but even that is going up...

I hadn't noticed prices going up much here in Ontario but today when I was buying evaporated milk, I could not believe the price of it and the sweetened Eagle Brand milk was almost $4.00 a can. I was shocked!! It used to be about $2.79 an can and that was bad enough but this is ridiculous.

I think I'd probably agree with the political thing you were going to say, but we'll let that go! As far as farmers are concerned, I don't know how they make it. This used to be farm country, now there are hardly any. It's such a shame because it is a good way to grow up. I'm not sure how all of this will work out. I just pray that it does, and soon.

try living in new jersey, one of the highest paying tax states in the nation.

Lisanne--My DH and I have been dairy farmers for the past 38 years. The year 2009 was the worst year ever for our farming operation as for all dairy farmers. We had record low prices that would equal just over a dollar per gallon for our whole sale prices. You don't want to know how much money we borrowed last year to stay in business and now have to pay the loan back. It makes one wonder why DH and DS work 14-15 hours a day, seven days a week. If your milk price is going up it hasn't been seen in our business.
Sorry if I'm on a soap box, but kind of discouraging to have such a devastating year as we start to transition our farm to the next generation.

Many of the huge farms in America - 1,000's and 1,000's of acres, and heads of cattle, are owned by foreign interests. We are already dependent upon some of those same countries for fossil fuels. Others are from countries from which we import many manufactured goods.

Try not to think too much about it, it's scary! My mom says that Americans live too far from the land - meaning that without going to the store to buy milk, eggs, meat, bread, packaged goods, people don't know how to survive. Oh my gosh, I just realized I'm getting old - I'm starting to think my mother is right :shock:

Is there sugar in the Eagle milk--check the price of sugar.

Milk is $3.39 a gallon. I have no clue how much a quart is. Or even if our stores sell quarts.

Gas $2.68 today. Sourdough bread $2.99 a loaf. School required volleyball shoes $90. (Thank goodness my daughter didn't want to play this year.)

I would imagine sweetened condensed milk is loaded with sugar.